Research strengths

The School conducts research into a wide range of language practices, covering through its subjects a diversity of times, places and themes which reflect the latest developments in language and linguistic practice.

Research is directed towards 9 key strengths. These key strengths reflect research orientations and concentrations among the staff. Each area has a successful record of academic publication, research training, the attainment of significant grants and funding, and the promotion of knowledge transfer to relevant community bodies and policy-makers. The key research strengths are from Morphology to 19th Century French culture - our research areas are as diverse as they are interesting.

German literature from 16th to 20th Centuries, Current German literature from the former GDR, German culture and philosophy, European studies, Historical linguistics and aspects of German, German teaching methodology and structural linguistics.

Staff in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics are engaged in a wide variety of research projects covering all major areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. Much of this research is funded by Discovery and Linkage grants from the Australia Research Council, and by international funding bodies including the British Academy of Humanities, the DFG and Volkswagen Stiftung (Germany) and the ETS Princeton, and Oxford University.

The Research Unit for Indigenous Language consists of a team of researchers within the School of Languages and Linguistics whose research is focused on Indigenous languages. We work with Indigenous communities across Australia and the region to expand and strengthen Indigenous Language research, and to support efforts by communities to maintain their linguistic and cultural heritage.

Literature studies - Early modern Spanish and European Literature, Cervantes studies, popular music and protest, political discourse and language tropes, contemporary Spanish and Latin American literary canon